Racism is a set of anti-scientific concepts based on the provisions on the mental and physical inequality of human races, on the impact of racial differences on the culture of society. The racist preachers are convinced that the higher races are the creators of civilization and must dominate, and the lower are not capable of mastering a high culture and therefore are doomed to exploitation.
The ideologists of racism believe that they fulfill the will of Nature, helping to preserve her most important creations. They argue that the superiority of some peoples and the inferiority of others has a bioanthropological nature, and therefore cannot be changed under the influence of the social environment and education.
Considerations about the natural inequality of races appeared in slave society and served to justify the differences between slaves and slaveholders. In the Middle Ages, judgments about "blood" differences justified class inequality. In the 16-18th century, when European states seized the colonies, racism was the explanation of the inhuman exploitation and extermination of the Indians, Africans, peoples of South Asia.
In the middle of the 19th century, the first theoretical works on racism appeared. The founder of racist theory is called Joseph de Gobino, who explained various historical models by the psychic characteristics of the races of their creators. In his writings, he declared the "highest" race of blue-eyed and fair-haired Aryans. Later, the term "Aryan race" was used by the German fascists, who attributed it mainly to the Germans. Racism became the official ideology of fascism, it was used to justify an aggressive policy, the physical destruction of millions of peaceful people, the creation of concentration camps, torture and executions. A similar "racist practice" was carried out by the Japanese militarists in China, and the Italian fascists in Ethiopia. Racist ideas are reflected in social Darwinism, according to which the laws of development of human society are reduced to the laws of biological evolution.
In the modern, broad sense, racism refers to the printed, verbal, physical manifestations of hatred of individuals or entire nations, the policy of persecution, humiliation, the infliction of violence, the escalation of hostility, the dissemination of defamatory information on a national or racial basis, ethnic or religious affiliation. Nazism, fascism, chauvinism.
Today, racism is the strictest social taboo and is prosecuted in many countries by law, not only real actions, but also the preaching of racism. The definition of racism is not customary to extend to professional, age or gender groups, to sexual minorities, to historical phenomena.
The cause of racism is in human thinking, and not in skin color. Therefore, healing from racial prejudice, intolerance, and xenophobia must be sought in getting rid of the false beliefs that have fueled wrong concepts for many millennia. Any theory of superiority based on racial distinction is not scientifically confirmed, moreover, it is reprehensible, unfair and dangerous. There is no theoretical or practical justification for racial discrimination.
